Software Engineer for Galileo Ground Segment (L3) (f/m/d)

Start Date: May 2024
Location: Gilching, Germany
Working hours: full time, 40h/week
Requirement: EU-citizenship 
Submission deadline: 30th April 2024

To support the activities of our Software Engineering Team in our office in Gilching near Munich, we are currently seeking to employ a highly motivated and enthusiastic Software Engineer. The tasks include design, develop and test software and will focus on the Galileo Ground Segment L3 software maintenance.

• Upgrade and maintenance of our in-house development and testing environments 
• Software problem analysis and resolution
• Support to anomaly resolution boards
• Change request analysis and implementation
• Code coverage and acceptance testing
• Bug fixing and implementation of new functionality
• Product assurance and configuration management
• Coordination with L2 maintenance team
• Maintenance release preparation following the Galileo Software Standard for Ground (GSWS-G) 

Additionally, you will be able to work on the design and development of new ground segment software including following tasks:

• Full life-cycle application development
• Full-stack web application development
• Designing, coding and debugging applications
• Software analysis and requirements analysis
• Graphical user interface design (mainly web)
• Software testing and quality assurance
• Evaluation and identification of new technologies for implementation

• University degree in a relevant discipline 
• Proficiency in Java, other programming languages are a plus
• Interest in working with web technologies: javascript frameworks, html5, css3
• Comfortable on configuring and using building tools (e.g. maven, gradle)
• Experience with Issue tracking systems such as Jira or Easy Redmine 
• Experience in software configuration management (e.g., Git, SVN)
• Experience with databases 
• Experience on application deployment on Linux systems desirable
• System-minded and a team player
• Able to work in an interdisciplinary and international team
• Self-starter, able to work independently with little or no supervision in a small team
• Fluency in English